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Zusatztext "New Public Management in Turkey represents an essential reading material for those who are interested in understanding the challenges of administrative reform in a complex and specific context. The capacity of the authors to identify important problems in designing and implementing reform at both national and local levels is impressive. The authors' contributions allow us to gain access to a sophisticated perspective with regard to administrative changes in Turkey." -Calin Hintea!Babes-Bolyai University! Romania"The peculiarity of the cultural and political context! the role of external and internal forces that drove the Turkish public administration reform process! and the specific focus on local government make this book an important source for theoretical and practical understanding of public management both for Turkish and international audience. Scholars as well as politicians and practitioners will find in this book a very good multidisciplinary analysis of a complex! long-term public sector reform process." -Riccardo Mussari! University of Siena! Italy"This book offers a rare and much needed contribution to the European public administration body of knowledge. It provides valuable insights into Turkish local government based on retrospective accounts of reforms! assessments of current practices! and informed references to comparative research. The scholar will find original ideas and reliable new data from the field. Public leaders will find inspiration to enhance the capacities of local governments to deal with the development and modernization needs of our societies." -Emil Turc! Aix-Marseille University! France"Because this comprehensive book on renewing Turkish local government provides a real state of the art analysis! it becomes an inspiration and an agenda for all those involved in decentralization! capacity building! and democratic governance at the local level." -Geert Bouckaert! Catholic University of Leuven! Belgium"I recommend this book to every student and researcher interested in understanding how a country with a strong Napoleonic administrative system can adopt a new public management agenda. Focusing on local government! this book provides us with full analysis on the trends of reforms related to human resources! performance management! and ethics. It also offers a profitable debate that addresses metropolitan problems and how to balance privatization! accountability and autonomy of services." -Miguel Angelo Vilela Rodrigues! Polytechnic Institute of Bragança! Portugal"This book is a much-needed contribution to Public Administration and Public Management. It represents a first-rate overview on long term developments and recent reforms at the local level and an outstanding up-to date analysis of administrative modernization in Turkey. The book is a must read for researchers and practitioners interested in Turkish local government reforms and in Comparative Public Administration." -Sabine Kuhlmann! University of Potsdam! Germany Informationen zum Autor Yüksel Demirkaya is an Associate Professor at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey since 2011. Klappentext The last three decades in Turkey have seen an extensive shift towards a neoliberal agenda. Turkey has made many attempts at reforming existing governance systems in an effort to be accepted into the European Union, attracting the attention and curiosity of public management scholars worldwide. New Public Management in Turkey is the first book to analyze large-scale public administration reforms in Turkey according to the underlying principles of democracy, transparency, accountability, and localization. . Zusammenfassung The last three decades in Turkey have seen an extensive shift towards a neoliberal agenda. Turkey has made many attempts at reforming existing governance systems in an effort to be accepted into the European Union, attracting the attention...
